Task: chopping down large tree with blunt (fragile) implements. (Cf. H1095.)

Motif

Task: chopping down large tree with blunt (fragile) implements. (Cf. H1095.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tedious tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1115

Scholars’ trail — 5references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "arbres"
IndiaThompson-Balys
Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 208
JamaicaBeckwith MAFLS XVII 251 No. 29.
general Type 313

Within the index

Filed under Tedious tasks.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Task: cutting down huge tree which magically regrows Task: sawing iron tree in two Task: cutting down a giant tree

Filed beside it

Task: carrying hundreds of sheep across stream one at a time Task: herding rabbits Task: bailing out a pond Task: climbing glass mountain Task: breaking huge rock to pieces Task: bringing as many horses as there are days in the year. (Brings one for each week-day.)Task: counting hairs in pig's back (feathers in bird)Task: picking all nuts from tall tree. (Performed by grateful squirrel.)Task: preparing large quantity of grain Task: feeding ravenous beast to satiation Task: gathering all stones from brook or field Task: traveling till iron shoes are worn out Task: carrying off huge quantity of money Task: keeping up a certain work all night Other tedious tasks

Travels with

Task: felling a forest in one night. (Cf. H1115.)

wander